Turn a Small Dining Room into a Work of Art
The dining room in our little round house is tiny. In fact it’s so small it’s hanging on the wall in our kitchen 😎
Yup, we hung our dining room on the wall and turned it into a work of art to save space.
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What you need
- Two fold-up chairs
- A piece of wood. I had one cut at the hardware store that measures 70cm x 50cm (27.5″ x 20″)
- Heavy-duty T-hinge and Rawl bolts
- Craft paint in a color of your choice
- Large cup hooks
- Adjustable chrome worktop leg
- Stencil (optional)
The Don’t Mind the Mess table was made using a piece of pine, measuring 55 cm x 45 cm. It was sealed with a white primer before adding the decal and covered with three layers of Annie Sloan Chateau Grey. Once the paint was dry, we simply removed the decal and gave the table a few coats of clear wax to protect. The table is attached to the wall using a T-hinge and rawl bolts. My ever careful hubby wanted to make sure we could dance on this table 😀
We found the chairs on sale at Mr P Home and painted them a vibrant lime green and hung them using white square cup hooks.
I used this pic we took in our kitchen as inspiration for the painting of the three lime green cups.
Now we have a dining room that’s a functional, space saving, work of art when it’s not in use.
And when we’re ready to eat, we simply take down the chairs, flip up the table and dine in our own little bistro cafe. The table top is kept upright with a chrome worktop leg. It’s been painted lime green to match the chairs. You can get worktop legs at most hardware stores and they are fully adjustable.
I’d love to know what you think of the idea of hanging a dining room on the wall. And if you have any other space saving tricks for a small space let me know. Oh before I forget, here’s the piccy of the dining room wall before we turned it into a work of art.
Such a waste of space, right!!? Anyways, hope you have a beautiful week, filled with lots of crafty goodness. Thank you for popping in for a visit.
Love the colour so bright and sunny. And a great space saving idea. Always so creative!
Thank you, Claire. With the small space, we had to think outside the box to make everything fit.
What a great idea, and I love the color of the chairs and table base.
Thank you Toni, it’s one of our favorite spots in our little round house
Looks great, I love the color and how easy it is to use.
Thank you Sarah. Once you get used to the the dining room being on the wall it is easy ?
What a brilliant idea!! Love this space saving idea!! And it looks awesome!! So clever and creative as always Michelle!
Thanks so much Sam. Our little round house by the sea is so tiny we have to be super creative to try find additional space
I love the vibrant green color that you chose for these chairs!
Me to Sherry. It’s such a happy color ?
Love that tree colour it’s so fresh.
It is a pretty color. So Spring like
Amazing what paint can do!! I love it!
Right?!!! Especially in such a small space. Thank you Yuni
Michelle your home is such a happy place with these lovely colors. And yes your wall is a work of art. The painting and the table top paired with those adorable chairs really make all the difference.
😀 Thank you Mary. When you’ve only got a tiny space to play with you have to make a plan
Love the whole project! Re the vibrant chairs, did you prep them or just spray? Thank you,
Hey Donna, thanks so much. We just wiped them down with vinegar before spraying them 😀
Very impressive Michelle! Is this your vacation home or your permanent home? Anyway, it looks fascinating! I’ve always wanted to experiment living small. If you live big, then you just accumulate more stuff. Not good. I love that vignette of greens on the wall. Those green chairs caught my eye b/c I found some discarded on the street that I snapped up. They look exactly like yours. Tell the truth now….do you really eat at your table? Haha, we don’t. We eat in the living room on trays. The tables are full of my clutter…sigh.
LOL Florence, that’s what our table looks like in our permanent home. Full of crafty clutter. This little one actually gets used regularly for breakfast in our holiday home. I think probably because she’s on the wall it makes it easier not to use her as an extra storage space and she’s real easy to take down when we need to eat. I’m so glad you like it and I remember those chairs that you found, they immediately made me think of ours.
I love this, but where is the table leg when the table top is flat on the wall?
Thank you for your lovely comment Kathy. We put the table leg away in a small space next to our kitchen units.
Where did you get the chairs
We have a chain store in South Africa called Mr Price Home. (I think they’re like the Ikea stores, but I’m not sure – I’ve never been to an Ikea store 🙁 ). Anyways they had them on sale a while ago and we bought a few just in case we needed extra chairs for Christmas lunch.
I need to see pictures of “nuts & bolts” of table attachment on & off the wall. we all know what chairs & paint cans look like. thanx..I have that same wall in my 11 m Paris apt.
Hi Mari, we’ll go down to our holiday home again in about a month or so – I hope. I’ll take some pics of the mechanics and update the post for you. In the meantime here’s a link to a picture of the hinge we used (hubby says it’s called a T-hinge) The long bit was attached to the pine table using screws and the short bit was attached to the wall using rawl bolts. We used an adjustable chrome worktop leg to keep the table up when we use the dining room and when we’re done we let the table down and put the leg away. P.S. Hubby also says, we’ve never seen Paris, we’ll come help – lol
this is such an interesting idea but it requires discipline to put the chairs back up and take them down every time
Hey Divya, thanx for your comment, you’re right about the discipline 🙂 Space in our little round house is a BIG issue so we’re kinda forced to keep it as clutter free as possible. So when the chairs go up and down I like to think of it as a mini work out session, way easier than going to the gym.
This is cool stuffs… Makes it look so easy 🙂
I did the easy stuff, Shaun had to do all the hard work 🙂 But you’re right it was pretty easy, the only thing we struggled with was making sure everything was nicely aligned on the wall.